You will always need VMs says, surprise, VMware Run on any cloud you like and get portability

VMWares Rajiv Ramaswami, Cloud Services COO, has told investors that VMs (virtual machines) are here to stay, even as container-based applications grow in popularity. Well, he would, wouldnt he.Analysts questioning Ramaswami at a conference organised by investment banking firm Stifel were speculating that the portability of containers and the fact that they can run on systems like AWS Fargate, Microsoft Azure Container Instances or Google's Cloud Run could threaten VMware's business. Kubernetes, an open-source system for orchestrating containers, runs on many different platforms.Serverless products like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions are even more fully abstracted – but using proprietary cloud services locks you into a specific vendor.